Dr Apostolos V. Scaltsoyiannes graduated (BSc) from the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Scholarship from Institute for National Scholarships) in 1980, and in 1988 acquired his PhD in Forest Genetics and Plant Breeding in the same department. In 1992, he accomplished his post-doctoral research in the Laboratory "Interactions Plant-Champignons et Micropropagation", University Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France, funded by EEC. In 2004 he was elected to the position of Professor of the Forest Genetics and Plant Breeding Laboratory, Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, AUTh. From 2003 until today he has been the Director of the Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, AUTh. He has participated in more than 80 conferences as either a presenter or invited speaker, and has been a coordinator or main researcher on more than 25 national and international funded projects. Since 2000, he has been the Scientific Coordinator of six bilateral research projects: one between Greece and France, one between Greece and Romania, two between Greece and Bulgaria, and two between Greece and FYR Macedonia. Since 1990, he has been the supervisor or a member of the advising committee or seven-member judging committee for over thirty graduate students (Master's and Doctoral) in the Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment and the Faculty of Agriculture, AUTh.